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Pedro Flombaum is a Professor at the University of Buenos Aires and a researcher at CONICET. He contributes in the area of ecology and the interactions of climate, biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. He authored publications mostly in the area of biodiversity change and its impacts on ecosystem functioning, and the relationship between climate and marine microorganisms. For more info visit his website

My research field is microbial ecology in the marine ecosystem. I study abundance and diversity patterns of natural marine plankton communities. Marine plankton encompass everything from viruses to microscopic plants and animals. They drift across the global ocean feeding trophic webs and driving biogeochemical cycles. One of my goals is to understand how communities and their role in the ecosystem are responding to climate change

I am an ecologist with a research interest in the interaction among climate, ecosystem functioning and biodiversity. My main goal is to understand the responses of ecosystem functioning to undergoing climate change, focusing on biodiversity. I am particularly interested in microbial communities because microorganisms are the most abundant and phylogenetically and functionally diverse communities in our planet. Using a variety of field-collected and available long-term data, I try to determine the role of microorganisms in the functioning of ecosystems, but also how climate and other big-scale dynamic factors shape the structure and diversity of microbial communities. I conduct my research in terrestrial ecosystems, mainly drylands [read more]

Candela is an undergraduate student with interest in the study of biological soil crusts in Argentina

Pablo is a graduate student whose work centers on the role of dryland biological communities in providing a variety of ecosystem services

Simón, an undergraduate student, works on plankton community patterns in marine fronts

Natalia did a PhD focused on the study of the abundance and distribution of marine pico-phytoplankton and its ecological role in the global C cycle

As an undergraduate student, Juan did his thesis on the climatological and biological controls of CO2 emissions in dryland soils